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His Holiness, Patriarch Aleksy II of Moscow and All Russia: A collection of his photos

08 December 2008

Memoriam: His Holiness, Patriarch Aleksy II of Moscow and All Russia

06 December 2008

Like the captain of a great ship, he guided the Russian Orthodox Church through troubled waters, rejecting those who would take the Church backwards to pre-revolutionary monarchist times, and at the ...

On December 5, 2008, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Alexei II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, Reposed in the Lord

05 December 2008

On Friday morning, December 5, 2008, His Holiness, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Alexei II, departed to the Lord, after governing the Russian Orthodox Church for eighteen years. The Patriarch ...

Orthodox Christianity – an “FAQ” Fr Steven Platt of the Russian Orthodox parish of Annunciation in Oxford answers questions that often come up in discussions about Orthodoxy

02 December 2008

Orthodox Christianity on a practical day-to-day level differs from even perhaps other kinds of Christianity in one essential way. In the Roman Catholic Church and to some extent in other Christian ...

Orthodoxy and the “Holiday Season”

27 November 2008

In place of this soulless and meaningless season of phony cheer and unnecessary stress, the Holy Church offers us the saving season of the Nativity Fast. In the divinely inspired logic of the Church ...

An Underground Story

An Underground Story

13 November 2008

And then I did remember the 100 dollars. I felt terribly ashamed and bitter. I felt ashamed because no one had blamed me, and bitter because I saw I was so completely incapable of doing any good and ...

The Sign of The Cross (A Sign of Papist Anger?)

19 October 2008

Not too long ago someone asked me why I make the sign of the Cross from the right to the left. It was pointed out to me that, in the West, it is from the left to the right. I pointed out to this ...

Protection of the Holy Virgin

13 October 2008

On October 14th (the 1st, old style) the Russian Church triumphantly and joyously celebrates the Protection of the Holy Virgin. This holiday is beloved by the Russian Orthodox people. It was ...

Saint Sergius, wonderworker of Radonezh

07 October 2008

It is to this moral instruction of the people that St. Sergius dedicated his life, to this end applying the means of a moral discipline accessible and comprehensible to all men – a living example, a ...

On prayer and emotion

27 September 2008

When reading prayers, we should try to feel the words of prayer as if they were our own. This way we assimilate the prayerful spirit of the prayer's authors. We can then keep those positive ...

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